Whatever your opinions about Do Not Track, set them aside for a minute and
just look at what the words say and who says them.
Individuals—the people we call "users" (you know, like with
drugs)—are the ones saying it. In grammatical terms, "do not
track" is
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UBOS is a new Linux distro that
I like for two reasons. One is that it works toward making it easy for muggles
to set up their own fully independent personal home servers with little or no
help from wizards. The other is that it comes from my friend Johannes Ernst.
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Sometimes a gift just falls in your lap. This month, it came in the form of an
e-mail out of the blue from Jared Nielsen, one of two brothers (the other
is J.R. Nielsen) who created The
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I'm writing this in a hotel room entered through two doors. The hall door
is the normal kind: you stick a card in a slot, a light turns green, and the
door unlocks. The inner one is three inches thick, has no lock and serves a
single purpose: protection from an explosion. more>>

A friend who works in one of the big banks recently told me that any
new-fangled approach to identity and payments is going to have a hard time
getting traction while credit cards continue to work as well as they do.
"Using credit cards is too easy, too normal, too entrenched in Business As
Usual", he said. They used to say the same thing about Windows.
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